Rand Paul, aka Son of Ron or abbreviated SOR to conserve ink, has reached a new low in his public discourse by using plagiarized material in his speeches without acknowledging the authors.

He is setting a bad example for all students and especially for those Roane County students who are now engaged in writing their entries for the Roane County student writing contest, which completes in early 2014.

Plagiarism is forbidden in this contest, and entries found to contain plagiarism will be rejected.

Members of the Kingston Public Library Foundation would like to thank Scott Johnson for donating Wesley Johnson’s extensive book collection to the library.
I am a member of the foundation. Several weeks ago my husband Roy and I were driving around on a beautiful fall day when we saw a sign for “C & C Estate Sale.”
We attended the sale at a lovely home South of the River. The owner, Wesley Johnson, has passed away and the homestead was being auctioned.
There was a home library with many, many, books.

The political climate in Washington changed briefly after the passage of a law to reopen government and extend the debt ceiling into 2014.
Tea partyers stepped to the microphones to bemoan their failure with long faces, disappointment written all over them.
Even U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz modified his strident tone and became less preachy.
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell actually smiled as he described what had transpired.

Mike Gibson’s article about Kevin McClure’s cancer brought back sad memories of my son’s bout with colon cancer.
Unlike Mr. McClure’s, my son’s had advanced to stage 4 when he was accidentally diagnosed while being treated for a kidney stone attack.
He died at 45 years old a little over a year ago.
As Bill Williams of WBIR TV says in a public sevice announcement, colon cancer is a silent killer.
Surgeons said the start of the cancer could have been active in my son as much as 10 years earlier.

Your Party’s strategy to allow the government to shutdown in order to get concessions on Obamacare is irrational.

You know as well as I do that people may not like Obamacare (because they do not understand it yet), but every poll shows they are vastly not in favor of shutting the government down to gain your small health care concessions.

I and others will remind people when it is time for your re-election on the stupidity of your Party’s decision.